CVE-2009-3101: Sun Opensolaris

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

xscreensaver (aka Gnome-XScreenSaver) in Sun Solaris 10, and OpenSolaris snv_109 through snv_122, does not properly handle Trusted Extensions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and console hang) by locking the screen, related to a regression in certain Solaris and OpenSolaris patches.

Affected products

• Sun Opensolaris: version snv_109 only; version snv_110 only; version snv_111 only; version snv_112 only; version snv_113 only; version snv_114 only; …

Published 2009-09-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.